OTTILE PATTERSON - 3000 YEARS WITH OTTILIE [VINYL]

RSD 2023:

Lost 1969 classic
Gatefold sleeve
Detailed background notes
Rare images
Repro promo card
Bonus 7” with picture sleeve

Ottilie Patterson had been a celebrated jazz and blues singer since the 1950s, but enormously expanded her repertoire with this July 1969 release. Taking in a range of songs ancient and modern, set to meticulous orchestral arrangements by Richard Hill, it touches on folk, funk, pop and more and adds up to a powerful and moving statement of her esoteric personality. It has long-awaited first reissue here, together with detailed background notes, rare images and a repro promo card.

SIDE ONE 1 Song Of Solomon 2 The Orphan 3 Latin Drinking Song 4 Please Accept My Apologies, Mrs. Pankhurst 5 Why So Pale And Wan 6 Helen Of Kirkconnell 7 The Sound Of The Door As It Closes

SIDE TWO 1 Spring Song 2 The Bitterness Of Death 3 Ad Uxorem 4 Hey, Ho, The Wind And The Rain 5 It Was A Lover And His Lass 6 Sonnet No. 8 7 Mrs. Pankhurst Returns

7” track listing
SIDE ONE 1 Bitterness Of Death 4:46
SIDE TWO 2 Make Me Or Break Me 3:22